6th Doom: Satan finally cast into the "Lake of Fire"
Rev
20:10
10
The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and
brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be
tormented day and night forever and ever.
Satan
meets his final perdition. He was imprisoned in the Abyss before; but
he is now "cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where also
the Beast and the False Prophet are" (Rev 20:10). When the Saviour was on earth, he discoursed to his disciples about an
"everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his angels"
(Matthew 25:41 "Then He will also
say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the
everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels").
This
is it; and this is the time when he for whom it is prepared first
feels those terrific flames.
Thus
ends the last rebellion ever seen upon this planet-the last sin, and
the last deaths, that ever occur in this dwelling-place of man.
(from
The Apocalypse: Exposition of the Book of Revelation)
7th Doom: The Wicked Dead – Great White Throne Judgment
Here is what the scriptures say about this final Doom:
Rev
20:11-15, The Great White Throne Judgment
11
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose
face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place
for them.
12 And I saw
the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were
opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And
the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which
were written in the books.
13
The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades
delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each
one according to his works.
14
Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the
second death.
15 And
anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake
of fire.
Revelation
20:11
"And
I saw a great white throne, (emblem
of purity and justice), and
him that sat on it,...
The
Son of God Christ Jesus, to whom 'the Father hath committed all
judgment. 'God in Christ, i.e., the Father represented by the Son,
before whose judgment-seat we must all stand. The Son's mediatorial
reign is to prepare the kingdom for the Father's acceptance, which
having done, He shall give it up to the Father, 'that God real
be all in all,' coming into direct communion with His creatures,
without a Mediator's
intervention, for the first time since the fall.
Christ's
Prophetical mediation was prominent in His earthly
ministry; His Priestly is
prominent now in heaven between His first and second advents;
His Kingly shall
be so during the millennium and at the general judgment- JFB
The
earth and sky fled from his presence, but they found no place to hide
(NLT).
Even
the brightness of his countenance dissolved the universe, and
annihilated the laws by which it was governed. This is a very
majestic figure, and finely expressed. The glorious majesty of God
filling all things, and being all in all - Adam Clarke
The Wicked Dead are Judged
Rev
20:12
I
saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God's throne. And
the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were
judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books. NLT
Books are opened. heaven keeps record of all the deeds of people, and of all the thoughts and feelings under which they act. Myriads of human beings have lived and died of whom the world knows nothing; but the lives they lived, the deeds they did, the thoughts and tempers they indulged, still stand written where the memory of them cannot perish. Not a human being has ever breathed earth's atmosphere whose career is not traced at full length in the books of eternity. Yes, O man! O woman! whoever you may be, your biography is written. An unerring hand has recorded every item, with every secret thing. There is not an ill thought, a mean act, a scene of wrong in all your history, a dirty transaction, a filthiness of speech, or a base feeling that ever found entertainment in your heart, but is there described in bold hand, by its true name, and set down to your account, to be then brought forth for final settlement, if not clean blotted out through faith in Christ's blood before this present life of yours is ended. And if no other books are to be thought of, the book of your own conscience, and the book of God's remembrance, will then and there attest your every misdeed and ill-desert. Think, ye that fear not God, and make nothing of trampling his laws, how your case will stand when those books are opened!
(from The Apocalypse: Exposition of the Book of Revelation)
Rev 20:12
And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.”
(Comment from The Apocalypse: Exposition of the Book of Revelation)
Two
Books opened: but there
is "another book, which is that of the life"- the roll-book
of the regenerate in Christ Jesus-the
register of the washed and sanctified through faith in his redeeming
blood.
This must needs be opened too, for many there be whose lives are fair and honest, who spend their days in conscientious purity, who live and die in the persuasion that they have fulfilled all the requirements of virtue, but who have never experienced the regenerating power of the new creation, who have never felt the need of atonement by the propitiation of a crucified Saviour, and who have disdained to build on the merit and righteousness of the one only Mediator as the sole hope of diseased and guilty humanity. Exalted as they may have been in their own goodness and morality, they have not believed on the only begotten Son of God, and therefore have not life, and so are not written in the Book of Life. The records of their own deeds is therefore not enough for the determination of their proper place and standing. People may appear well in these, and still not be prepared to pass the final inquisition. There is another and still mightier question in the case, and that is whether they have come to a regenerate and spiritual life through faith in Christ Jesus. Therefore the book of life must be opened too, and its testimony brought into the decision. If the name of anyone is not on that roll, no matter how virtuously and honestly he may have lived, there is no help for him, for only "he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life" (John 3:36).
On this same verse Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown reaffirms it this way:
Revelation 20:12
“Besides the general book of all, there is a special book for believers, in which their names are written, not for their works, but for Christ's work for, and in, them: 'the Lamb's book of life' Electing grace has singled them out from the mass.
Rev
20:13-15
13
The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead.
And all were judged according to their deeds.
14
Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake
of fire is the second death.
15
And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book
of Life was thrown into the
lake of fire.
Death
is not an extinction of all existence. The first death is a killing
of the body, a mutilation of the being, but not an extinction of it.
If death is the equivalent of annihilation, then these resurrected
ones are condemned and punished for the crimes and defects of some
other beings than themselves, and are not the people who did what is
written in these books. The first death is a terrible mutilation and
degradation, especially to a wicked man; though not a blotting out of
his being and identity. "The Second Death" must needs be
still more terrible and disastrous, for it is a more inward fret; but
not therefore a reduction to absolute nothingness. Angels are
regarded in all theology as immortal by inherent constitution; yet
wicked angels are under the horrors of this Second Death. The
children of the better resurrection are "as the angels of God,' "so these partakers of the "resurrection of damnation"
are as the Devil and his angels. If "the lake of fire" is
not annihilation to one, so neither is it to the other. But it is
Death, and it is torment; and there is every reason to believe that
it is eternal. It is "to the ages of the ages." Confirmed
depravity cannot be cured where no means of grace are; neither can
those cease to sin whose whole nature has been turned to sin. And if
there can be no end of the sinning, how can there be an end of the
suffering? Remorse cannot die out of a spirit ever conscious of its
self-imposed damnation! Therefore, "their worm dieth' not, and
the fire is not quenched" (Mark 9:44,48).
And
Death and Hades, here viewed as if they were personal beings, share
the same fate. They, of course, cease to be. There is nothing more of
temporal death or of the place of departed spirits after this. They
are not personal beings, hence, their casting into "the lake of
fire" is the end of them; but, conceived of as persons, they are
consigned to exactly the same
eternal punishment with the other wicked. They are the products of
sin, and they share the doom of what produced them. And thus, in an
ever-burning Hell, from which there is no more deliverance, all the
enemies of God and his Christ find themselves at last.
And
now, in the presence of these awful verities, what shall I say to
those who know it all, yet go deliberately on in ways which can have
no outcome but this Second Death? I look at them, and think; and the
terribleness of their hallucination paralysis my utterance. I would
fain arouse them to their better senses; but when I speak my
intense words seem but ashes in my mouth in comparison with the
alarm for which their situation calls.
Following
the great white throne judgment "death and Hades were
thrown into the lake of fire".
The lake of fire is the second death, the final destination of the
wicked. The doctrine of eternal punishment has always been a problem
to Christians who enjoy the grace of God and salvation in Christ. The
Bible is clear, however, that the punishment of the wicked is
eternal. This is confirmed in verse 10, where the beast and the false
prophet are still in the lake
of fire after the thousand years of Christ's millennial reign. Though
the wicked dead will receive resurrection bodies, they will be quite
unlike the resurrection bodies of the saints. The former people will
continue to be sinful but will be indestructible and will exist
forever in the lake of fire.
Though
many have attempted to find some scriptural way to avoid the doctrine
of eternal punishment, as far as biblical revelation is concerned
there are only two destinies for human souls; one is to be with the
Lord and the other is to be forever separated from God in the lake of
fire.
This solemn fact is motivation for carrying the gospel to
the ends of the earth whatever the cost, and doing everything
possible to inform and challenge people to receive Christ before it
is too late.
And
why? Because Jesus said in John 14:6-7:
6 "Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
7
"If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and
from now on you know Him and have seen Him."
and,
John 3:16-18
"16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting
life.
17
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but
that the world through Him might be saved."
A New heaven and New earth
All Things Made New
Genesis 20
Human history begins in a Garden and ends in a City that is Like a garden paradise. In the Apostle John's day, Rome was the admired city, yet God compared it to a harlot "That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God" (Luke 16:15). The eternal city of God is compared to a beautiful bride (Rev 21:9), because it is the eternal home for God's beloved people.
God's statements recorded in Rev 21:5-6 aptly summarize these final two chapters: "Behold, I make all things new... It is done!" What began in Genesis is brought to completion in Revelation, as the following summary shows:
-
Genesis
Revelation
Heavens and earth created, 1:1
New heavens and earth, 21:1
Sun created, 1:16
No need of the sun, 21:23
The night established, 1:5
No night there, 22:5
The seas created, 1:10
No more seas, 21:1
The curse announced, 3:14-17
No more curse, 22:3
Death enters history, 3:19
No more death, 21:4
Man driven from the tree, 3:24
Man restored to paradise, 22:14
Sorrow and pain begin, 3:17
No more tears or pain, 21:4
All Glory to God Almighty who was, who is, and is to come.
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